City Plaza Hotel
Synopsis
Zhenos lives with her sisters in a hotel occupied and run by refugees in the center of Athens. She is only eleven years old, but she has already lived through horrific experiences, having escaped with her family from the armed conflict in Afghanistan. Now far from their home, they try to build a new life, learn the language of a strange country, in constant fear of being evicted. Zhenos lives one day at a time in this hotel with it endless corridors, her memories of war still fresh in her mind, filling her dreams and often turning into nightmares.
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- Executive Producer : Triade Films
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Martin Berléand
- Director of Photography : Boris Munger
- Music Composer : Damian Tetelbaum
- Editors : Damian Tetelbaum, Violeta Paus
- Production Manager : Martin Berléand
- Visual effects : Lola Avigliano
- Sound mixer : Florencia González Rogani
- Participant : Zhenos Persad
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait
- Themes : Adolescence, Exile, Exodus, Minorities
- Production language : English, Farsi
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany, Chile
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany, Chile)
- Production year : 2019
- Runtime : 14 min
- Visa number : 151.176
- Visa issue date : 23/11/2020
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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